README
Jetson Leder-Luis
April, 2023
"Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare"
Review of Economics and Statistics


DataSetup makes TypesPanel

Then run LeadLag to fit Leads and lags

Then run SynthControlwithShift to make weights

Then run DeterrenceMeasurement.do to make graphs and estimate deterrence

Placebo.do runs placebo checks in the subfolder /placebos 

Identical copy of the TypesPanel should live in the robustness folder 

Robustness/forwardonly implements all of this using forward-only shifts, starting with the same control groups

Robustness/feout implements all of this removing fixed effects, starting with the same control groups

Robustness/flatline and robustness/linear implement simple projections

